[lbo-talk] Top all time donors 1989-2012

[Dennis Redmond]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:20 AM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?source=patrick.net&order=A

These are only the FEC-tracked contributions, a tiny percentage of the
total. The AFL-CIO spent $45 million over 23 years, which works out to
a couple million per year -- barely enough to cover postage for a
single mass mailing to its members, let alone serious organizing.

The real money -- running into multiple billions per year -- is in (1)
mainstream media ads and (2) money for Washington lobbyists. That's
where the neolibs have a chokehold on US political elites.

-- DRR